The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A railroad eighty-six miles long which runs to the summit of the Andes near Lima, Perue, has already cost the Government $35. 900, O00
 President Diaz has shown special favors to Dr. Mathilde Mthtoya, the first woman to become irregular prac- ticing physicians in Mexico
 The Austro-Hungarian regulars and militia are to be supplied with Manlichor repeating rifles Ky 1891. The number required Will be 1, 200. GOO and tho coat will be 43,OO0, 900 florins, It will take the empire ten years to pay for the weae ors.
 In the city of Mexico every body lives over shop. if the house be two Stories, or uses the lower floor for stabling the horses, quartering the servants, etc. Even the miliionalres often rent the ground floor of their swell residences for business purposes.
 The English co-operatives have a bank whose transacti0ns amount to $50. 009, GOO a year. They have 1,4OO stores and do business of $50, 000.- GOO year. Their 9OO 900 members re- ceive an annual profit of S15 0)0, 900. Their profits during the past twenty four years have 50 900. .00).
 There is a firm in Berlin that em- ploys two hundred girls who manufact- ure little bundles of antiseptic dressing material, with which all German solz diers are 10 be supplied in future, so that they may be able to dress their own wounds in the absence of a surgeon. The girls are all dressed in white linen cloaks and are strictly forbidden to bring victuals or any thing else into the TO )m where they work.
 The results of the survey and last census of India are that the area of the Peninsula of Hindostan is 1, 3S2. . 624 squara miles, and the population 253. S91. S21 Although immense tracts of country are annually cultivated, ac- corting to the most recent survey 10,- 900, 900 acres of land, suitable for cul- tivation, have not as yet been plowed. At the same time, 120, 900, 900 of acres are returned as waste land. Public Opinion.
 The Botanic Garden at Oxford is celebrate for its collection of aquatic plants. The colored water lilies are especially handsome this year, inclOd- ing the blue water lily from the Nile and the red water lily from the Ganges. The former opens in the day time, but the latter then remains closed, open ing at night "1t is pity" says a recent visitor to the garden, that these floral peacocks do not show their tails together. "-M r Ledqer.
 -Amesican newspapers are read here now much more that they former ly were, and the Mexican people are becoming somewhat familiar with affairs in the United States. Still it is a deplorable fact that the American and Mexican people know less about each other than they do about the principal nations of Europe, whereas the very contiguity of their respective territories make 1t desirable and almost necessary that the reverse should be the case. - The I'Wo Repat6- lies, City Of Mezico.
 -Tolstoi says there are three kinds of love in Rassia-elegant love, de- voted love and active love. Elegant love is a refined feeling of which one does not care to speak in a common way. and so it is customary to speak of it only in French. Says he: "It is an absurd and grotesque thing to say. but l am convinced that there have been and are-in a certain circle many persons, especially women, in whom the love they feel for friends. husbands and children would cease the moment it was forbidden to be ex- pressed in French"
 Sir Horace Rumbold, formerly British Minister to the Argentine Re- public, has written work on that part of South America, in which he says that bird life on the pampas, or South American prairies. is so abundant as 10 produce the effect of an open-air aviary. Brilliant little creatures, with red or yellow breasts, cardinals, magpies and oven-birds dart in and out of the grass and bushes in every direction, while in the higher regions numerous hawks and kites hover ominously over these tempting pre- serves" All are fearless in the pres ence of man. except the spur-winged blower, an unfortunate bird, much dis liked, and described as the spy and sculd of the pampas. It has hand some. glossy plumage of lavender and black, and shrill, discordant voice, with which it pursues the sportsman, frightening away game. - N T. orI1oy